Continental Drift Answers

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What is the name of the theory that explains why mountain ranges in Africa and South America line up?

A
Pangaea theory
B
landmass theory
C
continental drift theory
D
plate movement theory
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What first caused people to consider that the continents were once one large landmass?

A
glacier evidence in warmer countries
B
continents looked like they fit together
C
studying the valleys of the ocean floor
D
similar fossils were found on many continents
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Lystrosaurus provided which type of evidence supporting continental drift?

A
land features
B
fossil evidence
C
glacial evidence
D
climate change evidence
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Which piece of evidence suggests that Africa and South America formed Gondwanaland 200 million years ago?

A
coal fields
B
a shared ocean
C
folded mountains
D
land formations created by glaciers

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